Eccentric Flower:199806/fighting over nothing
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sixteen june ninety eight two p m fighting over nothing ASMARA, ERITREA - No one really knows why these two countries are fighting. They have nothing. This is a country where nearly-naked people struggle to farm subsistence from poor soil. They have no resources to take, no gold mines or oil wells or anything of the sort. Yet there are tanks along the border. The governments don't dislike each other, they don't even really have any policy disagreements with each other. The countries fought side-by-side once; they're supposed to be friends. It's tremendously hot here, even inside, and the bugs swarm onto you in black clouds when you step outdoors. The room is filthy, but I have indoor plumbing. Well, partially. One bathtub tap does nothing; the other produces a trickle of brown-black liquid. But the toilet works. Ethiopians bombed the airport here the other night, in Russian surplus aircraft. © columbine |
